Inspirational Quote by Eric S. Raymond

“Unlike most computer languages, C allows the programmer to write directly to memory. Key constructs in C such as structs, pointers and arrays are…

— Wiki Books

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

— Bill Gates

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you…

— Larry Wall

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing…

— Erik Naggum

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

— Tom Christiansen

Life is too long to know C++ well.

— Erik Naggum

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming,…

— Linus Torvalds

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where…

— Linus Torvalds

C++ is a pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he…

— Erik Naggum